Jem Cohen Movies

  • 1986
    At Close Range

    At Close Range

    At Close Range

    6.91986HD

    Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a...

    At Close Range
  • 1987
    Matewan

    Matewan

    Matewan

    7.31987HD

    Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

    Matewan
  • 2000
    Benjamin Smoke

    Benjamin Smoke

    Benjamin Smoke

    4.22000HD

    Benjamin Smoke is the highly acclaimed documentary by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen on legendary underground musician Benjamin Smoke. Benjamin...

    Benjamin Smoke
  • 1999
    Instrument

    Instrument

    Instrument

    6.81999HD

    The band Fugazi is documented over a period of more than ten years (1987-1998) through performance footage and interviews with the band and their...

    Instrument
  • 2012
    Museum Hours

    Museum Hours

    Museum Hours

    6.92012HD

    A security guard working at an art museum in Vienna crosses paths with a Canadian woman in town to visit her ailing cousin.

    Museum Hours
  • 2014
    The Film That Buys the Cinema

    The Film That Buys the Cinema

    The Film That Buys the Cinema

    02014HD

    A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.

    The Film That Buys the Cinema
  • 2016
    World Without End (No Reported Incidents)

    World Without End (No Reported Incidents)

    World Without End (No Reported Incidents)

    52016HD

    A portrait of Southend-on-Sea, a town along England's Thames estuary, that includes everyday streets, people, birds, water, mud and sky.

    World Without End (No Reported Incidents)
  • 2004
    Chain

    Chain

    Chain

    6.42004HD

    In Chain, actual malls, theme parks, hotels and corporate centers worldwide are joined into a monolithic superlandscape that shapes and circumscribes...

    Chain
  • 1997
    Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait

    Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait

    Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait

    71997HD

    Described as "a cross between a video and a documentary, but actually being neither of the two," singer/songwriter Elliott Smith plays three acoustic...

    Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait
  • 2015
    Counting

    Counting

    Counting

    7.72015HD

    An associative collection of visual impressions across fifteen chapters: a seagull in Porto, political posters in New York, an abstract painting in...

    Counting
  • 2009
    Chinatown Film Project

    Chinatown Film Project

    Chinatown Film Project

    02009HD

    Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities, in our imaginations, on our television screens, and in our memories. It is at once a...

    Chinatown Film Project
  • 1991
    Drink Deep

    Drink Deep

    Drink Deep

    6.31991HD

    Drink Deep is a lyrical vision of friendship, hidden secrets, and desires. Cohen uses several types of film image to add texture to the layered...

    Drink Deep
  • 1999
    Amber City

    Amber City

    Amber City

    61999HD

    A portrait of an unnamed city in Italy. Sidestepping the tourist attractions that make the city famous, the film/video posits an almost-imaginary...

    Amber City
  • 2006
    Blessed Are the Dreams of Men

    Blessed Are the Dreams of Men

    Blessed Are the Dreams of Men

    02006HD

    Moving towards an unknown destination, a group of anonymous passengers float through an unidentified landscape

    Blessed Are the Dreams of Men
  • 2008
    Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin

    Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin

    Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin

    02008HD

    This surreal art-movie/live-performance hybrid is comprised of New York filmmaker Jem Cohen's original 16mm and DV movie footage combined with...

    Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin
  • 2009
    Le bled (Buildings in a Field)

    Le bled (Buildings in a Field)

    Le bled (Buildings in a Field)

    02009HD

    A collaboration between Jem Cohen with writer Luc Sante made in Tangier, Morocco, a city where neither of us had ever been. En route from the airport...

    Le bled (Buildings in a Field)
  • 1996
    Lost Book Found

    Lost Book Found

    Lost Book Found

    61996HD

    The result of over five years of Super-8 and 16mm filming on New York City streets, Lost Book Found melds documentary and narrative into a complex...

    Lost Book Found
  • 2024
    Little, Big, and Far

    Little, Big, and Far

    Little, Big, and Far

    02024HD

    Jem Cohen brings the same meditative elegance and intellectual curiosity he did to Museum Hours (2012) with his stargazing new feature, again using...

    Little, Big, and Far
  • 2018
    NYC Weights and Measures

    NYC Weights and Measures

    NYC Weights and Measures

    02018HD

    "Like a floating, drifting piece of ticker tape, the film makes its way across boroughs and time to explore New York City's many moods, from loud and...

    NYC Weights and Measures
  • 1992
    Black Hole Radio

    Black Hole Radio

    Black Hole Radio

    01992HD

    Black Hole Radio is an installation that consists of taped confessions of callers of the New York City Phone Confession Line and video images. The...

    Black Hole Radio